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Thursday, April 20, 2017

More from the climate study

9% of respondents indicated that they had experienced unwanted sexual conduct
while at KU.

i. 1% (n = 75) of respondents experienced relationship violence (e.g.,
ridiculed, controlling, hitting) while a member of the KU community.2% (n = 104) of respondents experienced stalking (e.g., physical
following, on social media, texting, phone calls) while a member of the
KU community.6% (n = 413) of respondents experienced unwanted sexual interaction
(e.g., cat-calling, repeated sexual advances, sexual harassment) while a
member of the KU community.2% (n = 157) of respondents experienced unwanted sexual contact (e.g.,
fondling, rape, sexual assault, penetration without consent) while a
member of the KU community. Undergraduate Student respondents, Women respondents, LGBQ respondents,
and respondents with a Disability more often reported unwanted sexual
experiences than their majority counterparts. The majority of respondents did not report the unwanted sexual experience.

These numbers add up to 11%, not 9, but some may have experienced more than one category of "unwanted sexual conduct." Once again, these numbers are believable, even a bit low, and more or less proportionate to what one would expect. For example, you might expect sexual advances to be more frequent than stalking. You'd expect relationship violence to be higher than that, especially if it includes non-physical "controlling" and "ridiculing."

Fewer than 3,000 undergraduates (out of 20,000) filled out the survey. We can't know what the numbers would have been if everyone filled it out, or if a different 3,000 had filled it out. 3,000 is a large enough sample size (way more than adequate), but it is not random, since we don't know who chose to respond and what factors motivated them to respond, or to refrain from responding.

[UPDATE: I almost misread the last sentence here as "they majority of respondents did not report unwanted sexual experience." Well, yes, 91% did not report it! Actually, it means that the majority of this 9% did not report their experience to the university after it happened. Poor reading on my part, but of a sentence that is not very well crafted.]

I've experienced the first three, in more than one place. When it was one person doing all three, I reported. I'd probably report the same person doing two, as well. If the person did just one of the first three, I would tend not to report, although I might document.